Splendid Sights, Musical Might Melt 'Frozen'

Disney is at it again with a prince, a princess and a queen in "Frozen." In one sense, then, this animated feature for the holidays is frozen in the studio's fairy tale past. Yet the film transcends its various borrowings and occasional stumblings with a modern, exuberant spirit that draws heat from Broadway-style musical numbers and, before and after everything else, from marvelous 3-D animation. The superstars here are the animators. If you thought there was only so much to be done with ice and snow as visual fields, think again along the lines of prismatic crystals, epic storms and fantastical...